Tornado Cuts Swath Through Miami, Damaging Buildings
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MIAMI — A tornado stormed past Miami’s high-rise condominiums early Monday afternoon, smashing windows and sending terrified residents in the path of the funnel cloud scrambling for cover.
Numerous minor injuries were reported.
The storm, which touched down shortly before 2 p.m. EDT, uprooted trees, hurled branches and other debris and shattered the glass facades of several structures, including a new three-story building downtown.
Several local television stations captured spectacular footage of the funnel cloud as it blew through downtown and then tracked the shore past condo towers and across the Venetian and MacArthur causeways on Biscayne Bay.
In Little Havana, the roof of a three-story building collapsed.
At the MacArthur Causeway to the south, the tornado brought busy traffic to a halt.
Joseph McCrea, a toll collector at the Venetian Causeway that leads to Miami Beach, said he watched the storm rip trees out of the ground and set off small explosions as it tore down power lines.
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